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Apr 20 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨 Podcast with Nearly 100K Followers Cheers Attacks on Sam Altman’s Home, Swoons Over Alleged Arsonist, Recasts MLK as Turning Toward Violence

It might seem strange to spend time on podcast clips like this, but this is exactly how extremism gets normalized.

The Loud & Gay Show is not merely reacting to the attacks on Sam Altman’s house. The hosts are openly cheering them on. One host, Noa, says “That’s even better” at the possibility of multiple attacks, then adds that it would be “funnier” if one person saw the first attack and decided “that’s a great idea.”

It gets even more grotesque when the conversation turns to the warehouse arsonist. After describing the fire and the scale of the damage, guest Lily Eagla starts gushing over Chamel Abdulkarim’s appearance, saying he had “beautiful large eyebrows like you [co-host Rob Apollo] and Luigi Mangione.”

They then slide straight into historical revisionism, claiming that “the non-violence approach only works if there is a violent arm” and suggesting MLK was basically moving toward “we gotta start smoking [shooting]” people before “they shot him.”

This is information warfare. It is propaganda dressed up as podcast chatter that normalizes political violence, romanticizes arson, and launders militant politics through irony. Wild that something like this is casually hosted on @YouTube. Lily Eagla is also worth noting here. She recently traveled to Cuba with The People’s Forum and openly identifies herself as a propagandist.
Apr 16 9 tweets 4 min read
📰 My latest for @CityJournal!

Far-left activists are targeting Palantir in city after city. In Denver, 44 weeks of sustained protests and pressure helped drive the company out of Colorado. Now radical organizers across the country want to replicate that success. I’m incredibly excited for you all to read this article. It builds on much of my previous work covering these groups and how they operate. For those who read my work regularly, very little here will come as a surprise. city-journal.org/article/palant…
Apr 13 4 tweets 2 min read
👀 Didn’t have time to watch 4 hours of SNEAKO x Dugin x Jiang? I got you.

This supercut shows exactly what it was, foreign propaganda targeted at young American men and designed to turn them against their own country.

Topics included “the Founding Fathers were heretical Calvinists,” the claim that “the root of the problem is 1694” because that is when “the Bank of England was first chartered,” “the Statue of Liberty is Hecate, the goddess of hell,” and “America is a financial Ponzi scheme… there would be economic collapse, civil war.”

They even spiral into interpreting Trump’s social media posts, casting Trump as a Christ figure “healing” what looked like Jeffrey Epstein, with references to Moloch and the Statue of Liberty layered in.

And if someone is telling you the Enlightenment is evil, rest assured they are advancing an authoritarian worldview. If you’re a young guy looking for wisdom and finding it in the Sneako universe, give 11 minutes to Roger Scruton. If you can sit through 4 hours of Dugin and Jiang, you can spare a few minutes for a genuinely serious thinker.
Apr 13 6 tweets 4 min read
🚨 DSA National Leader David Jenkins Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Our Goal Is Communism”

You may have seen the recent New York Post piece on David Jenkins, the DSA mime leader who also holds national leadership. Since mimes are usually silent, it seemed worth letting people hear Jenkins in his own words.

Consider this supercut a helpful guide for anyone still wondering what “libertarian socialism” looks like in practice.

Though he brands himself a libertarian socialist, Jenkins frames the broader DSA project in explicit terms, “Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.”

He calls for disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, aligns himself with a political tendency that includes anarchists and left communists, and says he was the “only DSA member” at a January 6 counter-protest in Washington.

Speaking about his campaign against the SRG, Jenkins escalates the rhetoric further, “We’re not going anywhere until your goons finally start killing us, because that’s where this shit is going.”

He also fumes that the NYPD protected those attending a rally in support of Daniel Penny, which he denounces as a “disgusting display” by “outside agitators from Long Island” celebrating a “self-deputized racist murderer.”

Stick around, for more clips! David Jenkins recounts traveling to Washington on January 6, 2021 for what he describes as a counter-protest, then walking to the Capitol and spending an hour watching the riot unfold.

Jenkins says he felt like he had entered “the timeline where the fascists win” and came away convinced that if a coup had succeeded, police in New York would have enforced it.

But the story does not end in Washington. Jenkins says that the very next day he joined a protest organized by NYC DSA and coalition partners in Brooklyn, where he watched “my future mayor Zohran Mamdani” speak outside Chuck Schumer’s apartment demanding “real accountability.”

Jenkins closes by saying, “From that day on, DSA has been my political home.”
Apr 12 5 tweets 3 min read
🏳️‍⚧️ From “Death to America” to “A Strap and a Strategy”: A Look Inside Arm The Dollz 🏳️‍⚧️

Arm The Dollz is a trans revolutionary socialist group using explicit anti-American rhetoric while embracing militant politics.

In its own promo video, the group invokes “Death to America” and “Death to the Zionist Regime,” then warns of “dangerous times” and asks how to prepare for the “war that we’re about to face.”

Pair that with its calls for revolutionary struggle and talk of “a strap and a strategy,” and the picture is pretty clear.

When a group is preparing for open conflict, one can only hope the Feds are already investigating.

🧵Stick around because I am 99% sure one of these speakers was already being investigated by the FBI. The matching outfit, hair, nails, and bracelets all strongly suggest the first speaker is Ermiya Fanaeian of Armed Queers SLC.

Fanaeian has also been active in Cuba organizing and has said that the experience further radicalized her and helped her “level up” as an organizer.

She shared this on her Instagram story as well. @pythonintercept flagged it for me a few weeks ago, since she is someone many of us already keep an eye on.Image
Apr 6 4 tweets 2 min read
As appalling as the Times Square video is, it still does not crack Jennifer Koonings’s top three.

Here she is on a trip to Iran, touring the regime’s National Aerospace Park and acting as an apologist for the Islamic Republic. Looks like the Axis of Resistance kicked her to the curb job-wise, so now she’s pivoting to the Crackhead Barney strategy of yelling at random people in public. And it wasn’t just Iran apologetics either; she was pushing Hezbollah propaganda too.
Mar 21 6 tweets 3 min read
🧵Calla Walsh was live on a podcast this morning where she said she feels “lucky to be alive” watching what she hopes is the fall of the “US empire and the Zionist entity,” and called for urgent, concrete “material contributions” to an “international resistance front.”

I’ll be breaking this down further, including the names she dropped, what exactly she was calling for, and which podcast this was. I think she was toning down her language for YouTube and Lara Sheehi’s new podcast, but keep in mind this is someone who previously asked, “Why weren’t there 100 more Elias Rodriguezes?” That's her definition of a "material contribution."
Mar 18 7 tweets 4 min read
🚨 DSA’s Cuba work is more organized than many realize, with delegations, fundraising through the Venceremos Fund, licensed aid channels, influencer outreach, and internal plans for a future pro-Cuba bloc of elected officials.

My latest for @CityJournal @CityJournal It’s a fun article, but it also shows how complex this DSA operation really is. These are not Bernie Bros. They are political actors who see themselves as part of an international, anti-imperial Left that admires the Cuban Revolution. city-journal.org/article/democr…
Mar 3 4 tweets 3 min read
🚨 American Law Professor Eulogizes Iran’s Supreme Leader as a “True Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary” and Says “There are millions… calling for revenge, frankly.”

This isn’t coming from Tehran state TV. It’s coming from Nina Farnia, an Albany Law School professor.

“For many, Ayatollah Khamenei was an important figure of revolution and resistance… to all the peoples of the world that support the liberation of our peoples.”

Farnia says Iran is holding its own in a “struggle against the most powerful, vile empire in world history,” and argues that “getting rid of Israel,” which she calls a “military base” and a “genocidal entity,” is an “existential matter” for anti-imperialists.

She describes his assassination as “an incredible loss” and calls it “a tragic, tragic loss for the resistance, for the region, and I think for the world.”

Farnia also worries people in the diaspora will “complicate” Khamenei’s legacy, which she treats as a shame because “he was brilliant.”

Then it starts sounding like cope. She frames his death as “martyrdom” and suggests he may be more powerful now that he’s gone.

“A martyr never dies… a martyr can be more powerful after life than while living… and in the case of Ayatollah Khamenei, it seems like that actually may be true.” Here is her official school bio. It’s wild how often the “anti-imperialist” apologia and the critical race theory lane overlap in academia. Image
Feb 24 8 tweets 7 min read
🧵From Pentagon Bombs to Praise for Mamdani: Bill Ayers Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

I tuned into this Bill Ayers (Weather Underground) interview and it’s a gold mine—if you’re cataloging unrepentant radicalism.

He casually reminisces about putting “a stick of dynamite in the Pentagon,” then slips into “overthrow capitalism” and “abolition” talk like it’s a morning routine. He recounts meeting Vietnamese revolutionaries in Cuba before going underground, name-checks Rashid Khalidi, explicitly calls Zohran Mamdani’s election “very helpful,” and even jokes about the Leonardo DiCaprio character in One Battle After Another.

Stick around, I’ve got more Ayers clips to share. Bill Ayers lays out his “two legs” theory for revolutionary change: mobilization from below, what he calls “fire from below,” paired with institutional politics. He explicitly praises Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, and Bernie Sanders, framing them as useful, but ultimately secondary to mass movements.

Ayers is blunt about the hierarchy. Elections do not drive change. Pressure does. He points to Barack Obama as proof: without an independent movement applying force, even sympathetic politicians will fold.

He says he admires figures like Mamdani because that kind of electoral organizing is a skill he does not have. His role, he insists, is agitation.

Ayers ends by saying the movement has to “talk through the contradictions and find common ground.” We’ll come back to that in the next clip.
Feb 19 6 tweets 3 min read
Shame on @UCLA for canceling the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Bari Weiss. Code Pink and even Hasan Piker spent weeks pressuring UCLA to pull the plug, and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, who lives in China, was celebrating the cancellation on Instagram this morning. Here’s Jodie Evans’ IG story on it. And remember, just last week the State Department warned that Code Pink was operating as a foreign influence effort.

And you still bent the knee to an astroturfed cancellation campaign. Image
Feb 18 4 tweets 2 min read
Cornell Career Services is hosting an info session with @anduriltech tomorrow. Student activists are already trying to get it canceled, and if past is prologue, they’ll try to disrupt it in the room too.

If this gets shut down, it won’t hurt Anduril. It hurts @Cornell students who came to network, learn, and compete for internships, only to have a recruiting event hijacked into a political spectacle.

Debate the politics all you want. Don’t sabotage career programming. Flagging this for you too, @PalmerLuckey! Here’s a longer version that makes clear the activists aren’t just targeting Anduril. They’ve gone after Boeing and Lockheed Martin too, and it’s becoming routine at Cornell, which is genuinely sad.

At some point you’re not “holding companies accountable,” you’re policing what your classmates are allowed to be interested in. Some students want to learn about engineering, defense tech, military service, or law enforcement careers.

Not everyone wants to spend college cosplaying permanent protest in a keffiyeh.
Feb 8 16 tweets 8 min read
🧵 Super thread of mugshots from various University of Minnesota protest arrests.

If this is the campus pipeline, it’s fair to ask why parents keep writing checks. And why isn’t @usedgov looking at what’s being enabled here?

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Feb 6 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨 BREAKING: Four University of Minnesota students have chained themselves to Morrill Hall in an on-campus protest against ICE. Yes, this is the same building students occupied back in October 2024.
Feb 2 4 tweets 3 min read
🚨 “Please Care Enough to Get the Bazooka” — Antifa Militancy Without the Filter

When people think of Antifa, Eric G. King should be a face that comes to mind. Why? Spend two minutes with this clip from a recent book talk and you’ll see how radical his worldview really is.

King openly describes assaulting police: “I’ve thrown shit at cops. I’ve thrown piss at cops.” Then he pivots to lamenting that activists aren’t willing to go far enough. Prison, he argues, has been normalized as an acceptable consequence, while rage should instead be directed at the people who “make money off prisons.”

His solution isn’t reform. It’s force. He mocks letter-writing campaigns and pleads for something more visceral. “Please care enough to write,” he says, “but also please care enough to get that bazooka.”

King also says he’s heavily medicated, describing violent impulses so extreme that without mood stabilizers he might “pull a knife on someone at a grocery store for bumping into you.”

From there, the worldview sharpens. Law enforcement is collectively defined as the enemy. He claims ICE is “militarized” and broadly smears them as “Proud Boys” and “militants.” His back tattoo says it plainly: “Every cop is my enemy.”

He then laments the state of the abolition movement, criticizing it as too theoretical instead of physically tearing down prisons.

The panel even acknowledges the possibility of federal surveillance, with King directing a message to the FBI agent he assumes is listening: “Go fucking kill yourself… go plant a garden.”

King is currently on a national book tour and has even been interviewed by Business Insider. This isn’t anonymous online rage. Here’s King telling the firebombing story that led to his arrest.

In 2014, after returning from Ferguson, he describes feeling isolated in Kansas City and frustrated that no one around him was willing to engage in what he considered real “direct action.” When his small affinity group failed to “raise the temperature,” he decided to escalate on his own and threw Molotov cocktails at a congressman’s office.

What follows is his account of the charges, the plea deal, and nearly a decade behind bars, much of it in solitary. He frames the attack as an extension of his then-insurrectionary anarchism, rooted in violence and system-toppling, before shifting to how prison reshaped his worldview.

This is speculation on my part, but I’ve long suspected the choice of target was deliberate, meant to make the attack read as a hate crime and inflame tensions in the city.
Jan 24 6 tweets 3 min read
🧵The “General Strike” is the Far-Left dream scenario.

Listen to the progression in this clip. It starts with outrage over a shooting tied to ICE, then quickly moves to “it won’t be the Democrats” and “it won’t be anyone in the White House.” The conclusion is not reform or accountability, but escalation: “we shut it down” and “we launch a general strike.”

That’s not a narrow demand about ICE enforcement. It’s a broader revolutionary frame that rejects normal politics and treats mass economic disruption as the end goal. It’s also worth noting this is a Singham Network talking point, and they’re pushing it hard. And have been for months.

“A general strike is the next step… to build a socialist future.”
Jan 23 7 tweets 4 min read
Read my latest in @CityJournal!

The Tariq El-Tahrir Student Network connects student activists with members of Hamas and is tied to a group at the University of Washington. The university unsuspended activists last week, despite $1M in damage and no local criminal charges. A ton of work went into this piece, by me and a whole crew of great people at @CityJournal. It was a labor of love, and we’re hoping it drives real accountability at UW and raises awareness about well organized networks like Tariq El-Tahrir. city-journal.org/article/univer…
Jan 17 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵ICYMI, @SpanbergerForVA is clearing out UVA’s Board after Jim Ryan quit on their watch.

Blame Ryan. He treated civil-rights compliance like a gamble.

“How much risk are you willing to take?”

DOJ demanded documentation of civil-rights compliance. UVA turned in nothing. @SpanbergerForVA Ryan hints at using legal gray areas to keep DEI alive. But UVA counsel under Ryan, Tim Heaphy, admitted UVA ran DEI programs that crossed legal lines—and that prior administrations signaled they wouldn’t enforce federal civil-rights law.
Jan 15 6 tweets 4 min read
🚨 Radical Organizer Invokes Minneapolis Burning the 3rd Precinct and Claims “Every Neighborhood” Now Has Rapid Response Groups to Confront ICE

On tonight’s Scholars for Social Justice call, Noah Schumacher, a Minneapolis organizer with the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice, framed Minneapolis as a model of escalation, explicitly invoking the burning of the Third Precinct after George Floyd’s murder.

“This is the same city that burned down, that burned down the 3rd precinct, after, after George Floyd was murdered.”

He then claimed a metro-wide infrastructure of “rapid response groups” now exists in every neighborhood across Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the suburbs, with the stated purpose of monitoring ICE activity and mobilizing to “confront” agents.

“Every neighborhood in Minneapolis, every neighborhood in St. Paul, every neighborhood in the surrounding suburbs… has formed rapid response groups.”

“These groups have dedicated community members reporting on ICE activity so that people can respond as quickly as possible to observe, document, and confront these ICE agents.”

Schumacher did not present this as reform politics. He described it as revolutionary organizing aimed at power, explicitly rejecting reform as the goal.

“We are a revolutionary organization. Our focus is political power.”

“[There is] no reforming the police or reforming ICE.”

He also appeared wearing a National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression shirt, which is worth flagging as his organization is an affiliate of NAARPR.

Schumacher praised how Minneapolis has a deep bench of experienced activists and that is why this kind of mobilization is possible.

“There's a lot of seasoned, experienced organizers in Minneapolis. There's a strong activist culture in Minneapolis, and so people are showing up and getting in the streets, and it's a beautiful thing to see.”

Stick around. Next I’ll show Schumacher walking through the full rapid response playbook in his own words, plus how their coalition work fits into it. A lot of this won’t shock anyone who’s been tracking this organizing space. But hearing Schumacher lay it out on video is different. It’s one thing to talk in abstractions. It’s another to hear the operational details described plainly, start to finish.

-Schumacher says organized groups go to the Whipple Federal Building every day, describing it as where ICE is “housed” and where detainees are brought.

-He says “rapid response” members show up as early as 4 a.m. to scout and document how many ICE agents enter and leave.

-He describes recording vehicle descriptions and license plates and “getting a read” on agents’ routines and everyday movements.

-He says organizers follow ICE agents around the city and report back to rapid response groups on where they go and what they’re doing.

-He claims they’ve organized patrol groups “on constant alert,” driving and walking through neighborhoods, especially Cedar Riverside.

-He says activists identify the hotels where ICE agents are staying and do all night noise demos “to make sure they don’t get any sleep.”

-He frames this as planned infrastructure, saying they prepared for “increased repression” by building a “united front.”

Schumacher also says the coalition came first. He claims the People’s Action Coalition against Trump, involving 20+ organizations, was formed months ago and that this groundwork is what enabled them to mobilize thousands quickly when ICE agents arrived.
Jan 14 4 tweets 2 min read
Nothing to see here. Just the daughter of a Holy Land Foundation leader convicted of providing material support to Hamas, a senior Freedom Road Socialist Organization figure, and Zena Ozeir, who has worked as an assistant attorney general in Michigan. Whether she still holds that role was never publicly clarified.

This is the same Zena Ozeir who drew public scrutiny after posting, “Every accusation made by the Zionist entity is an admission. F*ck them, f*ck America, f*ck genocide apologists.” Dana Nessel’s office said it was “reviewing” the post. If any action was taken, it was never publicly disclosed.

Is someone currently on the Michigan AG’s payroll participating in this panel or not? Because the public deserves a straight answer.Image Her LinkedIn still lists the role as “Present,” for whatever that’s worth. Image
Dec 30, 2025 4 tweets 3 min read
🚨 Spanberger’s Incoming DEI Chief Cheers a Mob Tearing Down a Columbus Statue, Says the “Ancestors” Took Over

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger just announced Dr. Sesha Joi Moon as Virginia’s next Chief Diversity Officer and Director of DEI.

In this clip from 2022, Moon recounts a mob yanking a monument down and dumping it in the water, then treats it as righteous because “the ancestors” supposedly guided it.

“Richmond is the only place where the people brought down the first one. It wasn’t the politicians, it wasn’t an organization. The people one night got... The ancestors, just took a hold and said ‘we’re done here’ and yanked that joint down and then threw it in the water. I was on IG [Instagram] like, ‘Richmond is going off right now!’”

The statue she’s talking about was not Confederate. It was Christopher Columbus, funded by roughly 1,000 Italian-American residents of Richmond. It was even opposed by the KKK at the time because Columbus was viewed as a Catholic foreigner.

Not exactly reassuring for the Commonwealth that the state’s incoming top DEI official is openly cheering on, and materially supporting, street radicals smashing civic monuments. After being torn down, the Columbus statue ended up safely in Rockland County, New York, where residents funded its restoration and brought it to their local Sons of Italy lodge.